👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 7: Specifics of the Organization of the World Commonwealth - Part 1 -
7.3. The World Commonwealth and the Grand-Zone
The World Commonwealth, which is composed of the constituent Zones, is formed by a World Commons' Convention as its highest decision-making body, but it also has a dual structure that includes comprehensive regions that are larger than the Zones - the Grand-Zones.
Each pan-region is formed as a loose association of surrounding regions that share cultural commonalities. There is no unique way to divide it, but as an example, I proposes the following five divisions.
(I) Pan-Eastern Asia-Oceania Zone: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania
(II) Pan-Western Asia-Indian Ocean Zone: West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Indian Ocean
(III) Pan-European-Siberian Zone: Europe, Russia (including Siberia)
(IV) Pan-African-South Atlantic Zone: Africa, South Atlantic
(V) Pan-American-Caribbean Zone: North and South America, Caribbean
*1 Antarctica shall be under direct control of the World Commonwealth.
*2 Enclaves like the current overseas territories/provinces shall not be recognized, and shall be strictly divided into adjacent regions (overseas territories/provinces shall either become independent Zones or be merged with neighboring Zones).
A Zone can only participate in one Grand-Zone, but Zones in border areas can participate as observers in another neighboring Grand-Zone. These Grand-Zones function as decentralized mechanisms within the World Commonwealth, and matters that should be handled regionally are decided at the Grand-Zonal level.
Grand-Zones overlap with today's regional integration bodies such as the European Union and African Union, and similarities can be seen, but it must be kept in mind that each Grand-Zone is not an independent and competing regional bloc, but rather is ultimately a decentralized body within the World Commonwealth.
A Grand-Zone is itself a community with the Commons' Convention as its highest decision-making body. However, in order to avoid the division into regional blocks, delegates to the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention shall be selected by the Commons' Convention of each broad area within the constituent Zones (in the case of a federal Zone, each of Quasi-Zones, the Zonelets, that make up the federal Zone).
In this case, since the number of broad areas within a Zone varies from one Zone to another, in order to ensure fairness, the number of broad areas that can send delegates to the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention shall be limited to, for example, 20. The method of selecting the 20 areas shall be left to the discretion of each Zone, but here too, a lottery system that excludes candidate areas from being elected for two consecutive terms is considered to be the fairest and least controversial method.
Furthermore, in accordance with the above-mentioned purpose of avoiding the division into regional blocks, voting by Zone as a whole is prohibited in the resolutions of the Grand-Zonal Commons' Convention, and each broad area that has delegates must vote individually.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
